The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

black and white photographs taken by J.P. Mills

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caption:

Front view of bachelor's hall (morung) showing elaborately carved house-posts. In front of the building is the dance place, in the centre of which is the small monolith to which the captured enemies' heads are tied during the head-taking ceremonies. At the back of the building is the shelter which houses the log-drum. Konyak, Tamlu village.

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photographs

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Tamlu

production:

person:	Mills/ J.P.
date:	1918-1945
note:	documentation based on catalogue by Betty von Furer-Haimendorf unless uncatalogued, in which case text within square brackets

acquirer:

person:	School of Oriental and African Studies, London
refnum:	169/JPM/JPM

seealso:

C. von Furer-Haimendorf, The Morung System of the Konyak Nagas of Assam, JRAI LXVIII, 1938